Description
This data packet contains supply curves, hourly generation profiles, and a composite siting exclusion TIFF for utility-scale PV across the contiguous United States. The supply curves offer comprehensive metrics such as capacity (MW), generation (MWh), levelized cost of energy (LCOE), levelized cost of transmission (LCOT), and more for each reV site (~60,000 sites). Hourly generation profiles are available for each reV site and can be matched to the available capacity in the supply curve (refer to the Jupyter Notebook). The composite exclusion TIFF is a single file that delineates areas where PV installations are permissible based on various siting assumptions. This data packet contains information for the Reference and Limited siting scenarios. The PV system cost and parameters were obtained from the Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) 2023.
For further details and citation, please refer to the publication linked below: Lopez, Anthony, Gabe Zuckerman, Pavlo Pinchuk, Michael Gleason, Marie Rivers, Owen Roberts, Travis Williams, Donna Heimiller, Sophie-Min Thomson, Trieu Mai, and Wesley Cole. 2025. Renewable Energy Technical Potential and Supply Curves for the Contiguous United States: 2024 Edition. Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory. NREL/TP-6A20-91900.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solar PV reV Supply Curve Column Lookup.csv | CSV | Column headers and descriptions for the supply curve. | Open resource |
| Limited Access 2035 Moderate Representative Profiles 2012.h5 | Unknown | This dataset contains capacity factor power profiles (AC) that can be linked directly to the capacity available in the supply curve. See Notebook for joining details. 2012 denotes the year of the weather data/power profiles. | Open resource |
| Limited Access 2035 Moderate Supply Curve.csv | CSV | Limited Access Utility-scale PV supply curve. | Open resource |
| Solar Limited Exclusions Percent Included.tif | TIFF | This TIFF file represents a composite of all siting exclusions for the Limited scenario. The values in the file indicate the percentage of available land within each 90x90-meter pixel. Pixels with a value of 1 are entirely available (100%) for PV development. | Open resource |
| Open Access 2035 Moderate Representative Profiles 2012.h5 | Unknown | This dataset contains capacity factor power profiles (AC) that can be linked directly to the capacity available in the supply curve. See Notebook for joining details. 2012 denotes the year of the weather data/power profiles. | Open resource |
| Open Access 2035 Moderate Supply Curve.csv | CSV | Open Access Utility-scale PV supply curve. | Open resource |
| Solar Open Exclusions Percent Included.tif | TIFF | This TIFF file represents a composite of all siting exclusions for the Open scenario. The values in the file indicate the percentage of available land within each 90x90-meter pixel. Pixels with a value of 1 are entirely available (100%) for PV development. | Open resource |
| Reference Access 2035 Moderate Representative Profiles 2012.h5 | Unknown | This dataset contains capacity factor power profiles (AC) that can be linked directly to the capacity available in the supply curve. See Notebook for joining details. 2012 denotes the year of the weather data/power profiles. | Open resource |
| Reference Access 2035 Moderate Supply Curve.csv | CSV | Reference Access Utility-scale PV supply curve. | Open resource |
| Solar Reference Exclusions Percent Included.tif | TIFF | This TIFF file represents a composite of all siting exclusions for the Reference scenario. The values in the file indicate the percentage of available land within each 90x90-meter pixel. Pixels with a value of 1 are entirely available (100%) for PV development. | Open resource |
| How to Link Supply Curves with Temporal Profiles | Python | This repository contains a collection of user-friendly tutorials and guides for working with the Siting Lab data within the context of the reV model. The python code examples demonstrate the creation and transformation of Siting Lab data into reV compliant format as well as working with the reV model inputs and outputs. | Open resource |
| Technical Documentation | In this, the 2024 edition of this report, we present new estimates of the technical potential for land-based wind and solar photovoltaics (PV) for the contiguous United States (CONUS). We also provide cost estimates for the available resources, presenting representative supply curves that can be used in downstream modeling and analysis. Additionally, we introduce new methodologies used to estimate wind capacity, wind energy losses, transmission cost and representation, updated technology cost and design, and scenarios of siting constraints designed to help bound the uncertainty of renewable potential. | Open resource |